TANMOY LASKAR

Welcome! I am an Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Utah (USA) since August 2022.

I study energetic transient astrophysical phenomena, with a focus on relativistic explosions such as gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave (GW) sources. My group obtains and analyzes astronomical observations at all electromagnetic wavelengths. By combining these with theoretical modeling through rigorous statistical and computational analyses we explore and unravel the mysteries of the extreme Universe. 

I was previously a Fellow of the Radboud Excellence Initiative at Radboud University, Nijmegen (The Netherlands), a postdoc at the University of Bath, and a Jansky Fellow of the US National Radio Astronomy Observatory at the University of California, Berkeley from 2015 - 2018. Besides astronomy, I love reading, writing, poetry, ballroom dance, and music. When I'm not working, I can be found long-distance mentoring my SF Bay area-based chamber choir Tactus, or writing Renaissance polyphony.